Ansible Semaphore UI: My New Go-To Infrastructure Automation Tool
A couple of years ago now, I wrote about Ansible Semaphore which brings an awesome UI to Ansible and it is a MUCH simpler tool to get up and running…
Category: Automation
Install Terraform DevOps Beginners Guide
Terraform is a DevOps tool that everyone needs to know since it is one of the most popular ones in use today with organizations. Let’s see how to install it…
PowerShell Get Registry Value
The Windows Registry and registry editor have long been tools Windows admins have used to resolve issues, apply settings, etc. However, PowerShell makes automating registry changes or programmatically getting registry…
Enter-PSsession: Run PowerShell Remote Commands
Enter-PSsession is an important PowerShell cmdlet that allows admins to create connections to remote computers or servers and is a great way to administer these remotely. Let’s get a good…
PSWindowsupdate: Automated Windows Updates with PowerShell
Let’s look at PSWindowsupdate automated Windows Updates with PowerShell and see how it can come to the rescue for keeping your Windows environment up-to-date. What is PSWindowsUpdate? PSWindowsUpdate is a…
Ansible Software Patching for Beginners
Ansible is a well-known configuration management solution that can be used for automating many different things. One thing you can do very well with Ansible is using it for updates…
Ansible Docker Container Management Playbooks
Ansible can be used to manage your Docker container environment and other infrastructure. Let’s see how that can be done. What is Docker? Docker has become the standard for running…
Choosing the Best VMware Automation Tools
Providing streamlined and consistent management across the virtual estate is extremely important when using enterprise virtualization servers to run virtual machines in the enterprise data center. Managing a vSphere environment…
Apt Periodic Autoclean Interval with Unattended-Upgrades
If you have a number of Linux servers in your environment, whether these are in production environments or in the home lab, you want to keep your Linux servers up-to-date…
Convert Packer Variables JSON to HCL2 for automated vSphere templates
One of the tasks I have been working on lately is getting my Packer vSphere build templates converted over from JSON to the new preferred HCL2 language as of Packer…